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Bill Specialty License Plates Specialty License Plates; Requiring certain organizations that have an approved specialty license plate to submit within a specified timeframe certain financial information to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; prohibiting specialty license plate annual use fees or interest earned from such fees from being distributed to certain entities; requiring the department to develop an Endless Summer motorcycle specialty license plate; revising provisions relating to the issuance and fee distribution for Fraternal Order of Police license plates; directing the department to develop specified specialty license plates, etc. us/states/fl Florida Legislature 2026 SB 246 Florida SB 246 (2026)
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Florida SB 246 (2026) — Specialty License Plates

Specialty License Plates; Requiring certain organizations that have an approved specialty license plate to submit within a specified timeframe certain financial information to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; prohibiting specialty license plate annual use fees or interest earned from such fees from being distributed to certain entities; requiring the department to develop an Endless Summer motorcycle specialty license plate; revising provisions relating to the issuance and fee distribution for Fraternal Order of Police license plates; directing the department to develop specified specialty license plates, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-30.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. S 246 Filed (filed) — source
  2. S 246 c1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. S 246 e1 (engrossed) — source
  4. S 246 e2 (engrossed) — source
  5. S 246 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Favorable — 113 (pass) · upper
  • Returning Messages — 370 (pass) · upper
  • Favorable with Committee Substitute — 181 (pass) · upper
  • Passage, Third Reading — 1090 (pass) · lower
  • Favorable — 51 (pass) · upper
  • Third Reading — 370 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Fiscal Policy — primary (organization)
  • Gruters — primary (person)
  • Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

  • 2025-10-20 Filed filing
  • 2025-11-03 Referred to Transportation; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy referral-committee
  • 2025-11-24 On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 12/02/25, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
  • 2025-12-02 Favorable by Transportation; YEAS 5 NAYS 1 committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-12-02 Now in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
  • 2026-01-13 Introduced introduction
  • 2026-01-16 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 01/21/26, 11:00 am, 110 Senate Building
  • 2026-01-21 Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 11 NAYS 3 committee-passage-favorable
  • 2026-01-22 Now in Fiscal Policy
  • 2026-02-09 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/12/26, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
  • 2026-02-12 CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 1
  • 2026-02-13 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
  • 2026-02-16 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
  • 2026-02-17 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26
  • 2026-02-18 CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
  • 2026-02-19 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2026-02-19 Amendment(s) adopted (790388)
  • 2026-02-19 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2026-02-19 CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 passage
  • 2026-02-19 Immediately certified
  • 2026-02-19 In Messages
  • 2026-02-26 Bill referred to House Calendar
  • 2026-02-26 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2026)
  • 2026-02-26 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) reading-1
  • 2026-03-02 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2026)
  • 2026-03-02 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2026)
  • 2026-03-04 Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
  • 2026-03-04 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2026)
  • 2026-03-05 Substituted for CS/CS/HB 639
  • 2026-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2026-03-05 Amendment 473559 adopted
  • 2026-03-05 Amendment 532499 adopted as amended
  • 2026-03-05 Added to Third Reading Calendar
  • 2026-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2026-03-05 CS passed as amended; YEAS 109, NAYS 0 passage
  • 2026-03-05 Amendment 695167 engrossed amendment (replaces 532499, 473559)
  • 2026-03-05 In returning messages
  • 2026-03-11 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (695167)
  • 2026-03-11 CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 passage
  • 2026-03-11 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
  • 2026-04-09 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2026-04-10 Approved by Governor executive-signature
  • 2026-04-13 Chapter No. 2026-30

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/908f980a-5f73-4170-b439-d69ee191344c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).